Hi all, Today from 9:30-2:30 I birded Fifty Point in Grimsby . I had a great 5 hours. Highlights included a WHIMBREL, BRANT, PRARIE WARBLER, and CANADA WARBLER.
George Holland and his friend (Whose name I did not get) stopped by from 11:30-1PM while I was Lake Watching. Shortly before he arrived, I thought I had heard a Whimbrel calling. Just after he had arrived, I spotted one sitting on a rock directly at the tip of Fifty Point. The bird was still present when I left the Tip around 1:40PM. Also seen here were White-winged Scoters, a Black Scoter, Ruddy Turnstone, Spotted Sandpiper. George Holland told me that he was trying to see some Brant while he was there. Unfortunately for him, 30 minutes after he left, a flock of 36 BRANT's flew from East-West close to shore. On the way in to the park in the morning I observed a CANADA WARBLER. While leaving the park I observed a PRARIE WARBLER in a bush with a Red-eyed Vireo and Blackburnian Warbler. I also observed Blue-headed, Philadelphia, Red-eyed, and Warbling Vireo's. Yellow, Blackpoll, and Blackburnian Warblers. American Kestrel and one of the local Red-tails were also seen. Most Warblers were seen in the woodlot West of the Ball Hockey arena and East of the small Pond. Fifty Point Conservation Area in located in Grimsby, Ontario. http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=fifty+point+conservation+area&aq=&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=30.510813,86.572266&ie=UTF8&hq=fifty+point+conservation&hnear=&z=12 Cody _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
